CONVERGENCE. Music & Cultural Legacy (Elicio Winds)

Elicio Winds, a flute, oboe, and bassoon trio passionate about fostering new repertoire and forging community connections, makes its recording debut with works written for them by five accomplished American composers on Convergence: Music & Cultural Legacy. Each piece on the album is a world-premiere recording and highlights unique cultural elements within the state of Alabama while illuminating the region's history and arts through the medium of classical music.The album is titled Convergence to underscore the music's abundant interdisciplinary connections to literature, folk music, architecture, and more, as well as the relationships between the music and the community. These works have been performed at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Rosenbaum House (Florence, Ala.), a vintage theater (Montgomery, Ala.), the Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities (Auburn, Ala.), and many more outreach venues before finding their way onto this CD, where the ensemble hopes the music will be accessible to many additional listeners. All of the works on the album were made possible through two grants Elicio Winds received from the Alabama State Council on the Arts; the first to commission the pieces and the second to record the album.

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lullaby | ballad | spiritual - Shawn E. Okpebholo

I. My Mama’s Sweet Baby Boy

II. The Blind Child’s Prayer

III. Scandalizin’ My Name

Voyage - Joshua Burel

I. Pinging; Searching

II. Hurtling through space

III. Into the unknown

Usonian Games - Margi Griebling-Haigh

I. Verticalities (Cantilevers  Cornices  Lintels  Lights)

II. Perpendicularities (Atria  Architraves  Arrises)

III. Horizontalities (Parquetry  Palindromes  Puzzles)

Birds of Maycomb - Timothy Hagen

I. Calpurnia (Prothonotary Warbler)

II. Scout (Killdeer)

III. Tom Robinson (Northern Mockingbird)

IV. The Ewells & Atticus Finch (Great Horned Owl & Bald Eagle)

Clockwork No. 5 - Craig Michael Davis